peter pomerantsev everything is possible

Although Pomerantsev was born in Kiev during the Soviet era, he was raised in England, for which his parents left as political refugees in the 1970's. Which brings me back to the book - Nothing is True and Everything is Possible is a collection of anecdotes gathered by Peter Pomerantsev during his 10 year long experience of working in Russia. It's a dark film, and depressing one - but very well made, and I definitely recommend it. Although 'Дурак' tells a familiar story - a single, honest man struggling against an entire network of corrupt officials - it does so with class, style, and honesty.

Although the building is not in his district, Dmitri takes it upon himself to ensure that all residents are evacuated, but soon discovers that the entire town's bureaucracy is corrupt to the bone - and that revealing the dire condition of the building would also expose years worth of embezzlement of public funds by various council members. Dmitri calculates that the construction will collapse in less than 24 hours, killing all 800 residents. One day, the chief of a local repair group is absent and Dmitri is called in his place to investigate a burst pipe in one of the buildings - where he discovers a much large problem: the entire construction is faulty, and the building has started to tilt. The protagonist, Dima, lives together with his wife, son and parents in a single apartment in an ordinary Russian town although he works as a plumber, he studies architecture in hope of entering university and improving his situation - much to the chagrin of his mother, who doesn't believe that learning alone can get him anywhere. I recently saw a great Russian film, 'Дурак' - Durak, meaning 'The fool'. As the Putin regime becomes more aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system.ĭazzling yet piercingly insightful, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness.

He is brought to smoky rooms for meetings with propaganda gurus running the nerve-center of the Russian media machine, and visits Siberian mafia-towns and the salons of the international super-rich in London and the US. When British producer Peter Pomerantsev plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country. It is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, home to a form of dictatorship-far subtler than twentieth-century strains-that is rapidly rising to challenge the West. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell’s Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the wild and bizarre heart of twenty-first-century Russia. A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show

Peter pomerantsev everything is possible